Synodic month length 29.79 days

Length of current 667 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 53 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2054. It is 47 minutes shorter than next lunation 668 length.

Lunation length longer than mean

Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 9 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 54 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.

Lunar orbit position on 7 January 2054 Wednesday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠141.1°

This New Moon true anomaly is ∠141.1°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠168.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).

Moon before apogee

12 days after point of perigee on 26 December 2053 at 06:40 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 10 January 2054 at 05:56 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 402 517 km

Moon before descending node

8 days after its ascending node on 29 December 2053 at 18:29 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 5 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 13 January 2054 at 02:36 in ♓ Pisces.

Draconic month

Moon in southern standstill

At 19:44 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-18.772°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠18.720° in its northern standstill point on 21 January 2054 at 23:45 in ♊ Gemini.